The text-messaging app has always been the most-used on my phone. It’s fun and efficient, and it’s often a quicker way to get a response than sending an email or making a phone call. Yet, even as ...

Anonymous text messages containing disturbing content — such as claiming Black Americans had been “selected to pick cotton” — were sent the day after Election Day, targeting recipients in more than 20 ...

The quaint medium of text messaging has advanced greatly in iOS and Android, between Apple’s iMessage service and Google’s newer “RCS.” But text chats between those two platforms remain about as ...

Short Message Service (SMS) has been a staple of text messaging since the flip phone, but it may be time to let it evolve. SMS was created in 1992, back when cellphones could be mistaken for bricks.

Q: Why don’t some Android users get my iPhone text messages? A: Text messaging was once considered an anti-social communication method by those who grew up having phone conversations as their default.

To be clear, The Campaign Registry is not operated by a federal authority. Rather it functions entirely as a collaboration between mobile carriers, virtual phone service providers (“service providers” ...

Clerk Chat Inc., a startup building a messaging platform that integrates with major telecommunications carriers, today said it has raised $7 million in seed funding. The San Francisco-based firm plans ...

Apple and Google have added useful features to texting apps, yet the apps still lack a major component: an effective way to set limits. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s personal ...